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One Russian Soldier Every 29 Seconds—Ukraine Reports Record 2,980 Daily Losses
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Russia suffered an estimated 2,980 personnel losses in a single day, the highest daily figure recorded since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s General Staff reported on November 9.
That works out to roughly one Russian soldier killed or severely wounded every 29 seconds over 24 hours.
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According to the General Staff, the latest daily toll exceeds the personnel of six crews of the Moskva cruiser, the former flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
The previous daily record was set only a week earlier, on November 2, when Russia was estimated to have lost 2,500 troops.
The November 9 figure therefore represents a jump of nearly 500 personnel over the previous high.
Since the beginning of 2026 alone, Russia has lost an estimated 400,410 troops killed or severely wounded, according to Ukraine’s figures. The cumulative total crossed 400,000 on November 8.
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Ukraine’s General Staff attributed the scale of the losses to sustained combat operations by the Defense Forces, saying Russian commanders continue sending troops into costly assaults despite failing to achieve significant battlefield breakthroughs.
Previously, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces reported a new daily record for Russian personnel casualties on November 8, with 801 Russian troops killed or wounded in drone operations.
According to data published on the SBS’s official online dashboard, Ukrainian drone units eliminated 281 Russian soldiers. They wounded another 520, marking their highest reported single-day total since the force began tracking these figures.
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